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Kokomo, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gorman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76454. The Survey maps it on the Kokomo quadrangle.

Kokomo within Eastland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Kokomo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 314 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2020Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKE LEON
8 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 315 FIRE
31 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOVE FIRE
17 July 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARLTON FIRE
27 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROBINETTE
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWATSON
15 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEW HOPE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ellison Springs (historical)4.8 miles13
Gorman5.1 miles13
Staff5.3 miles12
Carbon6.6 miles12
Punkin Center7.1 miles12
Chaney7.2 miles12
Desdemona8.2 miles12
Mangum8.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380868. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.